Originally posted by grashed
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just lurking i am actually on the side of kop kid here... i too found the original post to be of the typical patronizing manner that is so common with PES folks. the thread of arguments is always the same: play FIFA = play only for an hour = don't know shi_t about football = miss something essential in life.
you guys all sound like you've just met jesus ("if only you knew, what he does to you")
you know.. sometimes maybe i WANT TO play only for an hour rather than wasting a week of my time replacing "Eddington" with "Roberto Laclos" or "Baroja" with "Radolno". i want to play as Real in fcuking Bernabeu and not (of all places) Nou Camp. i want Ronaldo and Zidane to pull nice little tricks (as they do quite frequently in real life) other than the lame PES choice between shimmy and flic-flac. i want Real to trash Alaves 5-0 as they did the other day without wondering why real life losers like Shearer, Anelka or Simone play godlike footy on level 5 in PES when in reality they so suck. i want a referee on the pitch. and linesmen. a referee, i might add, who doesn't yellow card every fcuking foul. i want authentic banners. not that "bellissimo calcio" crap. i don't want to bother tactics and set ups and "building up my game", because i have fcuking Zidane, Carlos, Raul, Solari, Figo and Ronaldo doing it for me. i want Ronaldo to celebrate his goals with his trademark index finger and not by doing childish flip-flops. i don't want Ronaldo to score headers (which he does all the time in PES), because he doesn't do that in real life. i want to be able to manually rewatch close situations rather than the computer picking scenes which it deems worthy (and which are usually not). i want to immerse in the visuals and relax and enjoy my Alaves trashing rather than fighting yet another endless 10 minutes just to keep my 1-0 against a loser team like leeds united (sorry to all leeds fans.. could have been any) just to collect dorky points to buy a Raul who in the end is not worth the money, playing next against Dortmund in Munich stadium, in which a player named "Kollar" plays like he was the best forward of all times besids shooting one free-kick after another (juuuuust like in reality)...
am i shallow? yep. maybe... but we all are sometimes (most of the times)... but maybe the rest of the time i have better things to do than to think how best to set up my game with "Ravoldi" on the left... read a book.. watch the new Almodovar movie.. hang out with my girlfriend... for example..
does that mean i know sh_it about football? no. does that mean i dislike PES? no. does that mean i need to constantly try to convert people and tell them what's good for them and what not? no.
if you really want things to change, then why don't all you guys not talk to your beloved Konami folks. tell them to not be so stingy and get a full licence (they sold a million plus of WE6 alone, so the whole "underdog" BS is lamer than lame). tell them to release a PC version and get a PS2 version on the US market. just needs a little conversion and a little marketing (for which they are too stingy again).
anyhow, then people will find out and compare by themselves. no preachers needed.
amen.